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Jan 8, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Filling in! It's DJ Esoterica

Good morning! Playing soft and sweet selections for this a.m.

10:00 AM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
10:08 AM		Harry Nilsson Gotta Get Up Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson RCA Records Label 1971
10:10 AM		Paul Williams You and Me Against the World Paul Williams Evergreens - The Best of the A&M Years Hip-O Select 2004 (From wiki): Williams himself debuted "You and Me Against the World" on his 1974 album Here Comes Inspiration, singing it as a traditional love ballad. Helen Reddy considered the lyrics too "paternalistic" to be convincing as a woman's declaration of love for a man. Instead, she interpreted it as a mother singing to a child, which her version clarified by her young daughter Traci's speaking to "Mommy" at the start and end.
10:13 AM		Helen Reddy You and Me Against the World Helen Reddy Love Song for Jeffrey Capitol Records 1974 Love Song for Jeffrey is the fifth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy, released on March 25, 1974, by Capitol Records.
10:16 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:21 AM		Karen Dalton Take Me Karen Dalton In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition) Light In The Attic Records 2021
10:25 AM		Eric Carmen All By Myself Eric Carmen Eric Carmen Arista/Legacy 1975 All by Myself" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen released in 1975. The verse is based on the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's circa 1900–1901 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18.
10:32 AM		Grant Lee Buffalo Mockingbirds Grant Lee Buffalo Mighty Joe Moon Chrysalis Records 1994
10:35 AM		The Jayhawks Waiting For the Sun The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall American Recordings Catalog P&D 1992
10:42 AM		Raspberries I Don't Know What I Want Raspberries Starting Over Capitol Records 1974
10:45 AM		Warm Drag Butch Things Warm Drag Butch Things - Single Six Tonnes De Chair Records 2021 Rock n' roll out of L.A. From their bandcamp: The two people in Warm Drag do specific things. Vashti Windish sings, the way Siouxsie sang power, the way Nico sang allure, the way Patti sang sex. Paul Quattrone makes the noise with two Akai MPC 1000 samplers. Beats that pummel or seduce, usually simultaneously, synths that soar like Morricone or pump like DAF, and gloriously twangy guitars that clang and echo like Duane Eddy spiraling down a k-hole.
10:46 AM		Mesh Missing Link Mesh Mesh - EP Born Yesterday Records 2021 Out of Philly! Love them. They're at Johnny Brenda's this coming Saturday with Heavenly Bodies, Soft Torture, Carnivorous Bells.
10:52 AM		Carnivorous Bells Semblance Carnivorous Bells The Upturned Stone 1547782 Records DK 2020
11:00 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:02 AM		Hedwig and the Angry Inch Wig In a Box Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Rhino Atlantic 2001 Written by Stephen Trask.
11:10 AM		Mick Ronson Pleasure Man/Hey Ma Get Papa Mick Ronson Slaughter On 10th Avenue Lemon Recordings 2009 Released February 1974. Debut album by Ronson.
11:13 AM		Shudder to Think X-French Tee Shirt Shudder to Think Pony Express Record Epic 1994
11:14 AM		Orville Peck The Curse of the Blackened Eye Orville Peck N Bronco Columbia 2022 One of my fave albums from 2022.
11:20 AM		Urge Overkill Nite and Grey Urge Overkill Saturation Geffen 1993
11:24 AM		Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead The Bends XL Recordings 1995
11:29 AM		David Bowie Golden Years David Bowie Station to Station (2016 Remaster) Parlophone UK 1976
11:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:36 AM		The Stooges Real Cool Time The Stooges The Stooges Rhino/Elektra 1969
11:39 AM		Bloria's Voice Eucalyptus Bloria's Voice N Floral Feelings Primordial Void 2022
11:40 AM		News Stop (1980) We Were Living in Cincinnati V/A HoZac 2019 Early comp of Cincinnati punk. Good!
11:47 AM		Tim Hardin Reason to Believe Tim Hardin Hang On to a Dream: The Verve Recordings Polydor 1994 Song first recorded in 1965. Hardin grew up in Oregon and joined the Marine Corps. He started his music career in Greenwich Village which led to recording several albums in the mid- to late 1960s, and a performance at the Woodstock Festival. Hardin struggled with drug abuse throughout most of his adult life, and live performances were sometimes erratic. He was planning a comeback when he died in late 1980 from a heroin overdose.
11:48 AM		Tom Waits San Diego Serenade Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night (Remastered) Anti/Epitaph 2018 The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 15, 1974, on Asylum Records. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac.
11:54 AM		Death Rock-N-Roll Victim Death ...For the Whole World to See Drag City Records 2009 One of the great punk outfits out of Detroit from the 70s!
11:58 AM		Woody Guthrie Howdjadoo Woody Guthrie The Asch Recordings, Vols. 1-4 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1999

Chat is archived.

Good morning, Eso :)

TAndy!

Words. Hey hey

Esoterica!

DSM!

BRI!

good morning all ☕

good morning to you all!:)

Good morning DSM and Brian D. Ready for a strong Sunday. (Go Birds)

go birds!

The name sounds very very familiar for some reason

who's on first tho?

Gotta git up

Good Morning All !

Mornin, Tom S!

hey tom! good morning

Nice morning selections Esoterica

thanks dsm:)

Top o’the morning dj! Happy. New. Year! Pleasure to be back on the east coast listening to my favorite west coast dj on this fine sunshiny morning!

aw thanks, RG! you and i were both on the left coast!

top of the morning!!

Best tacos and sunsets yet!

yup! i saw an amazing sunset at sunset cliffs in SD.

Listened to 91X and thinking of you as we slipped thru sd on our way down to Ensenada on a quest for amazing sunsets and tacos rajas and of course, Mexican Elvis ;)

love it! i turned on 91x when i was there too. haven't been down to Rosarito (used to get lobster there) or ensenada in a long time. how was it?? looked amazing from your pix.

@ Esoterica (host) Thanks for the earlier play of "Take Me" by Karen Dalton. That performance is proof perfect of Bob Dylan's praise-filled assessment in his book Chronicles1 that Ms. Dalton (besides being "funky, lanky and sultry" also "had a voice like Billie Holiday’s ... and went all the way with it.”

hi richard! thanks for stopping by. in the recent doc i mentioned, in. my own time (also the album name), dylan's admiration is mentioned.

and you are so welcome:)

This song sounds like they are doing a mashup of themselves with The Who

Tom I was just thinking the same thing!

totally, very keith moon-esque

I see that the promo trailer for the Karen Dalton documentary In My Own Time features a now-famous 1961 photo of Karen on stage at the Green Village folk music club Cafe Wha?, vocalizing with tremendous singer-songwriter-guitarist Fed Neil (most widely known today for penning "Everybody's Talkin' At Me") and a newcomer from the Midwest on harmonica -- a very young Bobby Dylan. Three future Folk Revival legends gathered around one mic! Wow!

wow!! i didn't notice it.

One final P.S.: Clearly, Dylan was already highly accomplished on harmonica before he hit NYC. But his virtuosity on that reed instrument is almost completely ignored by his biographers and other music writers. Dylan got some recording experience playing backup harmonica early on, and (as a total unknown in early 1961) he wouldn't have been invited up on stage by Fred & Karen unless he had some serious chops blowin'!

wow, bonus Esoterica!

That is a great footnote, richard! thank you!:) have you read dave van ronk's book (with elijah wald)?

hey there gboss!

@ Esoterica (host) Yes, indeed, I've read (and highly recommend) The Mayor of MacDougal Street ! For those who don't know, it's the posthumously published (thanks, Elijah Wald) autobiography of the iconoclastic, sardonic and marvelous Folk Revival singer-songwriter Dave Van Ronk.

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yo!!!

hi mr. m!

Hi, DJ Esoterica! Enjoying the show! Many thanks!

Thanks, Mr. M! Did you tell me about Joe v. Carol?

oops Joe v. Carole

Nope. I wanna see it too! Brian D??

Seems wrong, however I’m sticking with it 🤡 🐯

Yeah I get that. Since he is serving 22 years. I love John Cameron Mitchell. He does a great job.

is that why?

Ya that Dave Van Ronk Mayor of MacDougal St book is so good. Good points on Dylan yes. He was already playing and accomplished on piano, harmonica and guitar before he came to the northeast and switched over to the very popular folk "revival" thing. Bob was playing rock and roll, R&B etc already. So it is pretty thin this whole misguided backlash his so called "fans" had when they said he "abandoned folk" for rock and roll. He was already rockin!

right, good point

@bri

Ya that was me talking about the John Cameron Mitchell playing Joe Exotic. A fun over the top watch ya. Kate McKinnon and Kyle MacLachlan did a good job as the Baskins too.

@ Esoterica (host) And here's a true tidbit -- on two special occasions in the 1990s, I was in bands on shows headlined by Van Ronk. We chatted backstage. He was very gracious to a nobody like me asking him about the old days. And what he told me informally, in private, later came out in print in his book: How he was charmed by this Greenwich Village newcomer kid Bobby Dylan, recognized his huge talent and especially respected his sincere work ethic, learning all he could about folk music.

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Mick Ronson!! Guitar from Hull!

oh yeah! bri

yes you are mr. m,;) again

Also, ᎷяMΔᏞᏨØИᎢΞNᎢ is ADORBS 🤗

i thought the back story on baskin and exotic was interesting and balanced, too, a bri (love kyle maclachlan

Dave V.R. has some great interview bits in the Scorcese Dylan doc yes. He knew. Wise sage of the scene there. And as mentioned in the film related chats, the film Inside Llewyn Davis is based on Dave Van Ronk and the Mayor... book. The scenes of him trying to "make it" and traveling to meet the music biz bigwig I remember being pretty accurate w/the book.

Same Eso, Kyle M is great. Real pro. Agent Dale Cooper! CHERRY PIE AND DAMN GOOD COFFEE FOREVER!!

ORVILLE PECK ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

what a voice, huh, mr. m?

@ Brian D RIGHT ON about young Dylan starting as a rock n roller! I've made this point with other writers about folk music (I'm a bluegrass specialist, but ...): We're asking the wrong question: Instead of "Why did Bob go electric?" it s.b. "Why did he come East and go acoustic???"

haha yes, dale cooper!!

Great voice! Need this album!

get it, mr m!

BRB

URGE OVERKILL 🧡

i agree, bri. on the mayor of macdougal street and inside llewyn davis.

i love this album. one of my faves.

sold out on the Orville website. I’m cry.

nooooooo

Princeton professor and official Bob Dylan website historian Sean Wilentz has, I think, the exact right answer: In the early '60s there was a sense rock n roll had lost its way, getting smoothed out by crooners and away from its pungent, authentic blues and rockabilly roots. So Dylan was "going folk" in a large sense to connect with those deep, real and sturdy musical roots.

Needs another pressing! Can you call him?!?

on it lol

L0LZ

RADIOHEAD 🤎

Couldn't have said it better Richard! Headlines and mis-believed myths are easier for people to accept. The whole "going electric at Newport" event has been totally misrepresented. So many angles, views and voices about that day get overshadowed by myths. Many in the actual crowd of people there in the audience LOVED the electric set. And they loved electric sets by Paul Butterfield and other acts that weekend. Sounds like the reports of a poor sound system were the main problems

nice....

yo space cowboy!:)

nineties!...hey esoterica

yup!

went to the theater tla? and said well i get the tickets later and radioheAD was sold out on this tour ahhhhh!

and now the 70s

just as good

nooooo, bummer

STATION TO STATION!! What an album

agree, bri

love

I need to rewatch the Ken Burns Country Music deal. Didn’t BobbyD make an appearance?? With Johnny Cash??

ohj i only watched the first episode, Mr. m. bri?

★🖤 DAVID BOWIE 🖤★

i need to watch the whole thing too!

@ Esoterica (host) It's truly fascinating to me that the Coen brothers used Van Ronk's life & music - especially his classic album Inside Dave Van Ronk and incidents in his book - to create their film Inside Llewyn Davis ... and yet ... the grimly self-consumed Davis is nothing like the wryly humorous, slyly sardonic and very self-aware Van Ronk. Not a criticism of the film, just pointing it out.

Johnny Cash's tv show. Bob played on that. And Johnny played on Bob's album

They were both big at the time

It’s so great, DJ Esoterica. Opened my brainz on MUSIC, not just the one genre.

right, richard. i heard criticism of that as well. my friend stephen petrus who writes about folk music revival said the same thing as you.

Yes Richard, heavy on the "based on" for that film.

still love the film and isaac

Thanks, Brian D. I mentioned it because I thought it was just a situation of the two people liked each other and wanted to perform together. Sometimes artists just genuinely and organically try a different style of art. And other people just enjoy hating stuffs. Oh bother.

And in closing, I'll point this out, too: Look closely at the cover of the Inside Dave Van Ronk album (the photo was also used for the autobiography cover). Van Ronk is leaning in a doorway. There, at his feet (and easy to miss) is a little black cat, peering out, seemingly about to leap over the threshold and run away -- clearly the inspiration for the film's tragic (and ongoing) escaped cat incident!

THE STOOGES❣️

No spoilers! 🤬

wow, richard! no spoliers, really mr. m, see inside llewyn davis. awesome

The mighty Asheton wah wah pedal...

yeah bri

Oh ya Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan really liked each other and their music. And they were not too far apart musically. Johnny was very much rooted in Rockabilly/rock n roll. And Bob was always a fan of country music.

Forgot about that Cincinnati comp

@ Brian D YES! Confirming your take on the infamous Dylan-goes-electric (backed by the Butterfield Blues Band) at Newport Folk Festival 1965. I once met a fellow who was a volunteer-and-see-the-festival usher. His earwitness testimony: Dylan singing in the regular vocal mics got drowned for the main center audience by the drums & amps on stage: hence the booing! But in the wings, people could hear Bob ok and were cool with giving it a listen, even liked it.

I've been to many a show where I had to move around and find a better sound. Sound, speakers, PA systems, empty vs full of bodies... all different factors in how the sound travels and hits the ear.

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WestSiiidddeee!

L0LZ

love renfield ahem waits

totally!

Final Three Mins?! Boooo!

@ Brian D Exactly. If the sound booth people had thought to turn up Dylan's vocal mic to compete with the Butterfield band drums & guitar amps -- and if that could have been done without causing feedback -- this might have been the Famous (not Infamous!) Dylan Goes Electric! But this audience of Bob fans hung -- literally -- on his every word. Hence the upfront/center section booing that day because his singing was inaudible. A shame: Bob and band rehearsed all night to play a good set.

Great show today ! Have a good week

Thanks, tom!

see ya thursday!

Fun show ESO!

appreciate you stopping by, all!

thx richard lyons!

DJ Esoterica! Great selections! Many thanks! Big cheers! Kind regards to you, Lady!

Cheers Dears!

kind regards to you! thx mr. m!

cheers dears!